Nod

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) To cause to bend.

(2): ( v. t.) To signify by a nod; as, to nod approbation.

(3): ( n.) A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything.

(4): ( v. t.) To incline or bend, as the head or top; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness with; as, to nod the head.

(5): ( n.) A quick or slight downward or forward motion of the head, in assent, in familiar salutation, in drowsiness, or in giving a signal, or a command.

(6): ( v. i.) To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.

(7): ( v. i.) To incline the head with a quick motion; to make a slight bow; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness, with the head; as, to nod at one.

(8): ( v. i.) To be drowsy or dull; to be careless.

King James Dictionary

Nod, Gr. contracted a nod to nod, to beckon, a leap a spring to leap, to throb or beat, as the pulse

1. To incline the head with a quick motion, either forward or sidewise, as persons nod in sleep. 2. To bend or incline with a quick motion as nodding plumes.

The nodding verdure of its brow.

3. To be drowsy.

Your predecessors, contrary to other authors, never pleased their readers more than when they were nodding.

4. To make a slight bow also, to beckon with a nod.

Nod, To incline or bend to shake.

Nod, n.

1. A quick declination of the head.

A look or a nod only ought to correct them when they do amiss.

2. A quick declination or inclination.

Like a drunken sailor on a mast, ready with every nod to tumble down.

3. A quick inclination of the head in drowsiness or sleep. 4. A slight obeisance. 5. A command as in L. numen, for nutamen.

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

Land Of, the country to which Cain withdrew after the murder of Abel. As the precise situation of this country cannot possibly be known, so it has given rise to much ingenious speculation. All that we are told of it is, that it was "on the east of Eden," or, as it may be rendered, "before Eden;" which very country of Eden is no sure guide for us, as the situation of that also is disputed. But, be it on the higher or lower Euphrates, ( see Eden, ) the land of Nod which stood before it with respect to the place where Moses wrote, may still preserve the curse of barrenness passed on it for Cain's sake, namely, in the deserts of Syria or Arabia. The Chaldee interpreters render the word Nod, not as the proper name of a country, but as an appellative applied to Cain himself, signifying a vagabond or fugitive, and read, "He dwelt a fugitive in the land." But the Hebrew reads expressly, "He dwelt in the land of Nod."

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Nod. According to   Genesis 4:16 , the country in which Cain the fratricide took up his abode after his sentence of banishment. The place is unknown. It is probably connected in some way etymologically with the epithet nâd of v. 14 (Rv [Note: Revised Version.] ‘wanderer’). The addition’ eastward of Eden’ is of little help for its location.

J. F. M‘Curdy.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

The land to which Cain went after the murder of Abel, when he went out from the presence of the Lord. It was on the east of Eden, but is not identified.  Genesis 4:16 . The name signifies 'wandering' or 'nomad;' the verb is translated 'vagabond' in  Genesis 4:12,14 .

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Nod (nŏd ), flight. The region eastward of Eden, to which Cain fled from the presence of Jehovah.  Genesis 4:14-16. The Chaldee interpreters apply the term to Cain, and not to a land: "He dwelt a fugitive in the land."

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

The land of Nod, the country where Cain withdrew after slaying Abel. ( Genesis 4:16) It should seem that this wretch going thither gave this name to the place, for it means vagabond or wanderer.

See Vagabond.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Nod. (flight). The land to which Cain fled, after the murder of Abel. See Cain .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 4:12 4:14 Genesis 4:16

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Wandering, a region east of Eden so named on account of wanderings in it of the exiled Cain,  Genesis 4:16 .

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("wandering".) E. of Eden. Cain's place of flight.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. id. נוֹד , flight [see below]; Sept. Ναϊ v δ ), the land east of Eden to which Cain fled after the murder of his brother ( Genesis 4:16). The name is plainly akin with the verb nud, נוּד, to flee; and means simply the land of exile or flight. It were, therefore, fruitless to seek for a country of this name in Asia, and its position must depend entirely upon that of Eden, which is uncertain. Von Bohlen, however, would follow an intimation of Michaelis. and understand it as a name of India (Genesis p. 59). (Calmet, s.v.; Schmidt, Bibl. Geograph. p. 42,447; Rosenmuler, Alterthum. I, 1:215 sq.; Tuch, Genesis p. 111.) (See Cain).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

nod ( נוד , nōdh ): The land of Eden, to which Cain migrated after the murder of his brother and his banishment by Yahweh (  Genesis 4:16 ). Conjecture is useless as to the region intended. The ideas of China, India, etc., which some have entertained, are groundless. The territory was evidently at some distance, but where is now undiscoverable.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Nod, the land to which Cain withdrew, and in which he appears to have settled . While the site of paradise itself remains undetermined, it is useless to seek for that of the land of Nod. This land, wherever it was, could not have had a name till Cain went to it; and it was doubtless called Nod (which signifies flight, wandering), from the circumstance that Cain fled to it.